Politicians aren’t listening, so climate scientists are convening an emergency meeting in Copenhagen in March to collate the latest scientific findings so they can exert pressure on the international negotiating teams that will meet in Copenhagen next December. The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change will run from March 10-12, and will feature keynotes by [...]
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China has recently overtaken the US as the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitter, and that’s saying something. The kicker is that China already suffers horribly from global warming, with decreased crop yields, worsening drought conditions, and the frightening desertification of one-arable land. The government has also just admitted that its reliance on coal-fired power plants [...]
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Most people don’t get global warming and can’t understand why we’d work so hard on a project that doesn’t help us pay our bills. And that’s because they still think of global warming as it was explained to them in the 1990s: a slow almost-imperceptible change in climate that will bring a short drought here, [...]
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Plans for controversial Coal-to-Liquid plant dropped The Air Force has scrapped a plan to build a coal-to-liquids plant at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Air Force spokesman Gary Strasburg cited environmental concerns as one of the factors that led to the plan’s withdrawal, though the official statement did not mention such concerns. Finally, some [...]
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Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Energy Efficiency, Old King Coal, Politics, Progressive Coalition, Red Letter Campaign on Feb 3rd, 2009
We need to reach Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party of Canada. We think he’s biding his time, and preparing to bring down the Conservatives later this year. That’s all well and good. But even if the Conservatives are defeated in a general election, and the Liberals gain a majority, we still believe that our [...]
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It will cost $515 billion annually through 2030 to wean the world off fossil fuels and create a low-carbon future according to a report released by the World Economic Forum. Onshore and offshore wind, solar thermal and photovoltaics, waste-to-energy, geothermal and next-generation biofuels were all identified as large-scale clean energy sectors that governments throughout the [...]
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Australia — which for years has been the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas emitter* — is now suffering from a sustained drought and heat wave that is taking lives and reducing agricultural productivity significantly. Temperatures in many parts of the country have been hovering above 100°F for a record number of days, with only [...]
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Bishop Luc Bouchard, Diocese of St. Paul, says that this planet is a gift from God, and that Alberta Tar Sands might be a sin against humanity, and against creation. He knows of what he speaks, as he ministers to people who live near the World’s Worst Environmental Disaster. Read the CBC story. Here’s what [...]
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The problems for the new Obama administration keep adding up; in the current issue of the prestigious journal Science, researchers led by the US Geological Society, have noted that forests in the US are dying at an alarming clip. Analysis of old-growth forests have showed that the mortality rate has more than doubled since 1955, [...]
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